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Why do I believe in non-duality?
Originally written in my journal November 18, 2021 At one of the zoom meetings, something got me questioning, “Why do I really believe...
Bill Smith
Oct 30, 20231 min read
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Non-dual zoom groups
Although from the point of view of Awareness, there is no progression to Awareness, no “development” or “stages,” many of us who haven’t...
Bill Smith
Sep 7, 20222 min read
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At the threshold
I have this threshold experience where I get right up to the door of Awareness but the doorman says, “Sorry, bud, you can’t get in.” “But...
Bill Smith
Sep 6, 20221 min read
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Very special Nisargadatta quote
I’ve been reading this quote from Nisargadatta (I Am That) for several days. I find it rich with meaning. I’d like to share the quote and...
Bill Smith
Aug 25, 20222 min read
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There is only one love, one beauty
In the zoom meeting today, I expressed my concern that I seemed too often be diminished or raised up by “others.” I would have a period...
Bill Smith
Aug 25, 20222 min read
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On balance in the universe
Note: All quotes are from Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Tao te ching. In a recent non-dual zoom meeting, someone raised the...
Bill Smith
Jul 20, 20224 min read
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An indescribable "experience"
I had an experience when I awoke late last night. I put quotation marks around “experience” because I know Holger will jump on that term,...
Bill Smith
Jul 19, 20222 min read
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Experience moves through the self
I’ve been listening to the meditations from the Garrison Retreat, and in one, Rupert says that “the Self doesn’t move through experience,...
Bill Smith
Jul 3, 20222 min read
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What's age got to do with it?
At a recent nondual meeting, there was some discussion about whether it helped to have age and experience to be “realized,” to be able to...
Bill Smith
Jun 28, 20224 min read
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My perspective when I go to the various Zoom meetings
Periodically, I attend the Zoom meetings of Friends of Rupert Spira and the Spiritual Coffee Shop (hosted by Holger Hubbs). I want to...
Bill Smith
Jun 22, 20222 min read
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Seeing and expressing through the veil
I have learned something valuable from the Spiritual Coffee Shop (https://www.gardenoffriends.com/ ) group. For awhile, I have expressed...
Bill Smith
Jun 18, 20223 min read
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Finding the self
Some days, when I want to find my True Self, it’s like peeling an onion. I go through, layer by layer, looking for access, but I don’t...
Bill Smith
Jun 2, 20222 min read
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Why do I attend the non-dual Zoom meetings
In one of Holger Hubbs’s "Spiritual Concession" Zoom meetings, someone suggested that the only reason to be there was to solve our...
Bill Smith
May 28, 20224 min read
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Getting to that space…
I’d like to describe an event that is occurring more frequently for me. It still only happens about once a week, and even though I go...
Bill Smith
May 26, 20222 min read
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Contrast between spiritual teachers
I have been wondering about the “place” where various spiritual teachers speak from. They all speak of the ultimate reality as “Oneness,”...
Bill Smith
May 25, 20224 min read
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Learning from failures ( winter 2021)
Note: This passage was written awhile back, months ago, in 2021. I’ve learned to no longer depend on “my story” for learning, or for my...
Bill Smith
May 25, 20224 min read
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